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Linux 2.6.30 gets new filesystems
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| The new NILFS2 treats the whole disk as a consecutive list of blocks
| (or "log"), and never rewrites blocks. As a result, all modifications and
| creations are converted into sequential operations, which are said to be
| faster. Other NILFS2 improvements are said to include the ability to offer a
| more coherent historical view of operations, called "continuus snapshotting,"
| enabling users to restore files that have been mistakenly destroyed only a
| few seconds previously.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7212048164.html?kc=rss
Torvalds proclaims 'new world order' with Linux 2.6.30
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| Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released with hundreds of changes from the
| previous version, including a new architecture for suspend and resume which
| Linus Torvalds says switches the kernel to a "new world order".
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/06/10/torvalds-proclaims-new-world-order-linux-2-6-30
Open Letter to Logitech - Secure Your Spot as the Premier Linux Devices
Provider
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| As an IT Professional, electronics consumer, and GNU/Linux user, I am
| continuously looking for Peripherals providers that support the "Universal
| Operating System" (GNU/Linux).
|
| I'm the guy that you'll find in the nearby BestBuy store, or Walmart, or even
| Office Depot, hunkered down in the electronics aisle, flipping over boxes
| looking at "System Requirements" to see if there's any indication of vendors
| doing the right thing and printing "Works with GNU/Linux"(or perhaps even
| affixing the Tux Penguin emblem) on their packaging. And although a great
| number of peripherals and hardware work with GNU/Linux, sometimes it's still
| a bit difficult to be absolutely positive. With your help, I aim to change
| that.
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http://www.humans-enabled.com/2009/06/open-letter-to-logitech-secure-your.html
2.6.30 Kernel and Sidux
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| Sidux Linux, based on Debian Sid (the 'unstable' branch) and touted as
| being 'Debian Hot & Spicy!', has released their 2.6.30 kernel with a huge
| surprise.
|
| If you read around the web about the release of this new kernel, nearly every
| article discusses increased performance and a large number of new drivers for
| the 2.6.30 kernel release. But within Sidux, the kernel developer slh has
| decided to remove all non-Free (Libre) firmware from the Sidux kernels. The
| result is poor hardware performance within Sidux 2.6.30 kernels, at least
| thus far according to rants on the OFTC irc network on the #sidux and #smxi
| channels.
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http://gnuski.blogspot.com/2009/06/2630-kernel-and-sidux.html
Linux 2.6.30 Gets Faster Boot
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| The second Linux kernel of 2009 is now out, sporting a long list of
| improvements -- and at least one regression.
|
| New filesystem support, security and driver improvements are all part of the
| new Linux 2.6.30 kernel release, although one of the most noticeable elements
| in the new release is the kernel inclusion of fastboot, an enhancement
| designed to speed startup for Linux-based systems.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3824421
Recent:
Linux Kernel 2.6.30 released
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| After eight release candidates and a rather short development cycle, Linus
| Torvalds has released Linux version 2.6.30, dubbed "Man-Eating Seals of
| Antiquity". As with its predecessors on the main development line of Linux,
| it introduces a host of innovations.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Linux-Kernel-2-6-30-released--/news/113492
Fine tuning
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| Although it wasn't explicitly planned this way, a whole lot of the changes
| made in the new kernel version have an impact on file systems and data
| storage. There are, however, also plenty of changes elsewhere, for example
| faster booting, more efficient compression algorithms and hundreds of new and
| improved drivers.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Fine-tuning-What-s-new-in-Linux-2-6-30--/features/113478
Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - Architecture and infrastructure
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| Linux 2.6.30 can be compressed using Bzip2 and LZMA, includes security
| framework Tomoyo and should boot faster. Tasmanian devil Tuz, who stood in
| for Tux as Linux mascot in 2.6.29, has been relieved of his duties.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6-30-Architecture-and-infrastructure--/news/113469
USB hardware, netbooks and notebooks
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| The kernel developers have added new features to thousands of the Linux
| kernel's existing drivers and integrated numerous additional drivers. This
| further increases the variety of hardware supported by Linux.
|
| A few days ago, Linus Torvalds released the seventh Linux 2.6.30 release
| candidate. According to Torvalds, most of the merged changes are minor, and
| the next big kernel version is nearing completion – although Torvalds does
| still anticipate an eighth release candidate. The Kernel Log takes this
| opportunity to discuss what's new in the driver arena of Linux 2.6.30; the
| final version of the forthcoming kernel will probably be released in one to
| three weeks.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6-30-Drivers-New-drivers-for-audio-video-USB-hardware-netbooks-and-n--/news/113426
Linux 2.6.30-rc7
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| Ok, so 90% of the patch is the addition of one new driver, at around 9000
| lines for the the Cisco PCI-Express FCoE HBA SCSI driver.
|
| If you ignore that (and you should - unless you happen to have such hardware
| and have been pining for the driver to be merged for a long time), the rest
| is really mostly a collection of small fixes. Several regressions fixed,
| lots of small cleanup.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/23/121
Linux 2.6.30-rc6
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| Things definitely are calming down, with just about 300 commits in the last
| week. And most of them are pretty small too, although the powerpc updates
| brought some defconfig changes that look largish.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/16/3
Linux 2.6.30-rc5
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| It's been a week (and a couple of days - what can I say?), so here's a
| new -rc.
|
| It's been getting quieter, although by -rc5 I obviously always hope for not
| just "pretty quiet" but "almost deathly quiet", and it never is.
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/8/505
Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - File systems: New and revamped file
systems
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| The patches adopted in Linux 2.6.30 introduce many significant changes
| affecting data security and Ext3 and Ext4 performance. Support for the EXOFS
| and NILFS2 file systems is new, as is the cache for the AFS and NFS network
| file systems. There are also a few fixes for the almost forgotten ReiserFS
| file system.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6-30-File-systems-New-and-revamped-file-systems--/news/113157
Exciting changes in the 2.6.30 Linux kernel
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| Every Linux kernel release has interesting changes but 2.6.30 really stands
| out to me as having a lot of features I would like to take advantage. In
| 2.6.29 the only really great feature to me was the inclusion of barrier
| support for simple DM devices. It’s only 1 change but an important one in my
| opinion as it will allow an increase in either performance or reliability for
| LVM and dm-crypt devices. But 2.6.30 has a lot of changes that I am likely to
| take advantage of such as:
|
| * The addition of nilfs - I’ve tested nilfs and I am happy to see it
| adopted. I’ve run into problems using it but would like to see it become
| stable. It seems likely to beat btrfs as the first stable Linux disk
| filesystem with snapshots.
|
| [...]
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http://hightechsorcery.com/2009/04/exciting-changes-2630-linux-kernel
Ext3 ‘data=guarded’ mode coming for Linux kernel 2.6.30?
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| There were some patches from Theodore T’so - the Ext4 maintainer, Jens
| Axboe - the block layer maintainer, Chris Mason - the Btrfs developer et al.
| An overview of the discussion can be found at LWN.net, here.
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http://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/ext3-dataguarded-mode-coming-for-linux-kernel-2630/
Linux Supports More Filesystems With 2.6.30-rc1
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| Two weeks have passed since the release of the Linux 2.6.29 kernel that
| brought Intel kernel mode-setting, the Btrfs file-system, and many other
| improvements to the Linux kernel. Now though the first release candidate for
| the forthcoming Linux 2.6.30 kernel is now out in the wild.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE5MA
Kernel Log: Development of 2.6.30 is under way
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| Shortly after the release of Linux 2.6.29 last Tuesday, the kernel subsystem
| developers began to prepare the first changes to be merged into the main
| development branch for Linux 2.6.30. This is usually done by sending a "Git
| pull request" – an email which includes the URL to a Git tree with the
| proposed changes as well as a diffstat and a list of individual patches – not
| only to Linus Torvalds, but usually also to the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing
| List). Often, the maintainer of the subsystem starts the email with a short
| summary of the proposed changes, highlighting the most important ones, or
| putting the changes into context.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-Development-of-2-6-30-is-under-way--/news/112944
Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - Storage: RAID improvements, optimised CFQ
Scheduler, SAS drivers
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| The next kernel version is to provide all that's necessary to convert, for
| example, a RAID 5 into a RAID 6 and vice versa. There are changes to the
| block layer designed to speed up the system, and new and improved drivers
| will offer better SAS support.
|
| With the fifth release candidate of Linux 2.6.30 out a few days ago, the
| development of the next kernel version in the main development line continues
| to progress. As indicated by Linus Torvalds in his release email, the changes
| are slowly decreasing in number and size, which is what usually happens at
| this development stage.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Kernel-Log-What-s-coming-in-2-6-30-Storage-RAID-improvements-optimised-CFQ-Scheduler-SAS-drivers--/news/113302
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